Greetings,
I recently heard about this Tornado (swirl technology) so I thought I would look into it. A freind of mine has an Excursion with a V10. He said he went from 9 mpg to 15 just by adding this tornado. Wow, holy yumpin yimminy! So, I looked into it. I found a deal that has some scoop on it and thought it might be worth passing on. The site is www.eng-tips.com and the descussion topic is "Swirl technology and devices take 2". These guys are running dynometer test on high performance motors as well as regualar street stuff like I can relate to. I was looking into the miles per gallon area cause I do a lot of miles on a weekly basis. I am in the process of reading it again for the third time and I am convinced that I am "not convinced", if you know what I mean. Seems there is an advantage to the carborated engines and a "negation of the swirl" in the EFI models. I am not too too sure that I will be investing the 70 to 80 bucks just yet without looking into this a little more. Just thought I would shoot this out there for info. (note**, I haven't as of yet seen this freind of mine' truck, and that mpg increase is yet to be seen, as far as I am concerned). Anyway, there you have it. As I find more, I will slide it in here on this topic............ ,...
Rob

 

I've seen the TV ads for this thing and if you ask me is way to much money. It reminds of the prolong oil ads just sounds to good to be true.

Well let us know how this tures out, maybe there is some truth to how well it works.

Thanks,
Will-

 

Will,
Semper Fi, Mac. I am active duty Marine Master Sergeant.....
RRRRRRRRRRRRR!!!!!!!.

Anyway. Found a couple of more stops on this one. Seems that Turbo-Flo has one, Hiclone makes the same as well. As I keep looking into this; everything I find is that there seems to be a minimal increase in the mpg. There is almost no add as far as in performance, i.e. horsepower and torque for us normal guys. One test did show a +5.7 torque and +5.7 hp from 4000 to 6900 rpm. But... this was with VP C-12 race gasoline.....Hmmmmm. Out of my league totally.......So far all I am going to invest in is my favorite 'ham sandwich in a can' and some good reading on the subject.......Rob

 

Save your money and use it to buy a couple of tanks of gas. Or, if that cash is just burnin' a hole in your pocket, you can send it to me.

 

Ask yourself this: If they *really* worked, and they actually provided more power and better mileage (or just one of the two), don't you think the factory would be installing these things on every vehicle they made?

 

Put that money towards a K&N... Its proven !!!!!

Just my opinion